Sentences with phrase «by narcissistic parents»

Raised by narcissistic parents, I have a chronic attraction to these kinds of people.

2) A personality disorder pathology can be created / induced by a narcissistic parent through various manipulations that cause the child to adopt that parent's narcissistic traits toward the other parent.

To protect children from the abuse inflicted on them by a narcissistic parent.

These are the «psychological fingerprints» in the child's symptoms of the psychological control of the child by a narcissistic parent.

Children exposed to parental narcissistic anger (commonly referred to as «narcissistic rage,» Kohut, (1972) find the experience so psychologically disturbing that they become strongly motivated to avoid venturing outside of the psychological state desired by the narcissistic parent.

Rather than an authentically bonded relationship, however, this superficial appearance of bonding actually reflects the child being used by the narcissistic parent as a «regulating other» to maintain the narcissistic parent's own grandiose self - image as the ideal and perfect parent / (person).

Not exact matches

Narcissistic parents, who come to believe that the child exists for their benefit, are often threatened by their child's growing independence.

This is a support group for people raised by (or being raised by) a narcissistic parent.

Co-written by Cholodenko (who with her partner conceived a child by sperm donor) and Keeping the Faith screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (a sperm donor when he was in college), the crisply funny screenplay delivers a slyly affectionate poke in the ribs to boomer culture, with its compulsive hyper - parenting and narcissistic introspection on the one hand, and its devoted pursuit of self - gratification on the other.

This is a support group for people raised by (or being raised by) a narcissistic parent.

This is a support group for people raised by (or being raised by) a narcissistic parent.

In the case of this attachment - related pathology of a child rejecting a parent surrounding divorce, the family is unable to successfully transition from an intact family structure to a separated family structure because of the aberrant and pathological processing of sadness by the narcissistic / (borderline) personality parent, who is then triangulating the child into the spousal conflict through the formation of a cross-generational coalition with the child to stabilize the collapsing personality structure of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, which is collapsing in response to the rejection and abandonment inherent to the divorce.

The trans - generational transmission of attachment trauma from the childhood of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent to the current family relationships, mediated by the personality disorder pathology of the parent that is itself a product of this parent's childhood attachment trauma.

The key diagnostic indicators are the three symptoms of pathogenic parenting by an allied narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

Clinical Definition: Prominent attachment - related pathology surrounding divorce represents the trans - generational transmission of attachment trauma from the childhood of an allied narcissistic / (borderline) parent to the current family relationships, mediated by the personality pathology of the parent that is itself a product of this parent's childhood attachment trauma.

The anxiety variant tends to be displayed by younger children, who will develop the hostile - rejecting display as time goes by and they mature, and when the alienating parent has a stronger borderline personality presentation with less pronounced narcissistic traits.

After every session (if the narcissistic / (borderline) parent even allows therapy sessions to occur), the child is asked by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to report on what occurred during the therapy session.

However, while the child is in the parental care of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, the child is in a psychological hostage situation and does not have permission from the hostage taker to form an affectionally bonded relationship with the beloved but rejected targeted parent, and the child is instead required by the hostage taker to actively reject the beloved other parent (see «The Hostage Metaphor» article on my website; http://www.cachildress.org).

This set of three symptoms in the child's symptom display represent definitive diagnostic indicators of the distorting influence on the child of pathogenic parenting practices by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent that are inducing severe developmental, personality, and psychiatric symptoms in the child.

2) Extremely distorted pathogenic parenting by a narcissistic / borderline parent in which this parent induces or elicits the child's false belief of sexual abuse,

An attempt by the allied and supposedly «favored» parent, to excuse the child's atrocious behavior as somehow being understandable and justified because the targeted parent somehow «deserves» or provokes the child's behavior is direct evidence of the narcissistic / (borderline) personality structure of the allied and supposedly «favored» parent who is supporting the child's development of highly problematic affect regulation and attitudes of contemptuous disrespect for others.

In about 20 % of the cases that come to me because of my expertise in «parental alienation» it turns out that the targeted parent who is alleging «parental alienation» actually turns out to be the narcissistic parent who is externalizing blame and responsibility for the child's reluctance to be with the narcissistic parent onto the other parent by alleging «parental alienation» because the narcissistic targeted parent feels «entitled» to possess the child.

The childhood developmental trauma experienced by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent resulted in a disorganized attachment system that subsequently coalesced during late adolescence and early adulthood into the narcissistic and borderline personalty traits that are now driving the pathology described in an attachment - based model for the construct of «parental alienation» (Foundations).

I will NOT participate in or collude with the ability of a narcissistic parent to emotionally, psychologically, physically, or sexually abuse the child and then avoid responsibility and nullify the protective efforts of the normal - range and healthy parent by alleging that the child's allegations are simply a case of «parental alienation.»

Key to understanding this proof, is that the psychological control of a child by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent will leave «psychological fingerprints» in the symptoms of the child.

To the extent that professional incompetence in diagnosing narcissistic and borderline personality processes involved in a cross-generational parent - child coalition causes developmental, emotional, and psychological harm to the child client through the loss of an affectionally bonded attachment relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent (i.e., the parent who is rejected by the child as a result of the undiagnosed and so untreated psychopathology and pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / (borderline) allied and supposedly «favored» parent within the parent - child coalition), this may represent negligent professional practice that is directly responsible for causing harm to the client.

For example, in the 1 % or 2 % of the cases in which the child's allegation of sexual abuse incest against a parent is induced and elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent, in those 1 % — 2 % of cases the likelihood that the child's symptoms were induced or elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent is 100 % — in those cases.

This set of «psychological fingerprints» in the child's symptom display is only possible through the psychological control of the child by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

These «psychological fingerprints» are most directly evident in the narcissistic and borderline symptoms of the child that occur in association with the suppression of the normal - range functioning of the child's attachment system and along with a delusional belief system displayed by the child that the parenting practices of the other parent, the targeted parent, are somehow «abusive» in their inadequacy, when they are not.

The child learns to surrender completely to the reality defined by the needs of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

All memories held by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent of the positive relationship the targeted parent may have had with the children are lost to relevance.

The psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent is insidious, so that it can be hidden from general view by the veneer of the child's induced and adopted role as «the victim» and the role adopted and displayed by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent as the supposedly «understanding» and «protective» parent.

The targeted parent will return to Court seeking contempt charges, and the Court will not levy sanctions but will instead modify its orders and stress to the narcissistic / (borderline) parent the importance of following Court orders, and these new orders will simply be ignored by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

If the three characteristic diagnostic indicators of attachment based «parental alienation» are evident in the child's symptom display, then this represents definitive clinical evidence for the child's psychological control by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

The presence in the child's symptom display of the three characteristic diagnostic indicators (i.e., the «psychological fingerprints») of the child's psychological influence and control by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent represents sufficient and definitive clinical evidence that the symptomatic child - initiated cut - off of the child's relationship with the other parent is the direct result of the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (i.e., the allied and supposedly «favored» parent), who is using the child in a role - reversal relationship as a «regulatory other» (see my blog essay: Parental Alienation as Child Abuse: The Regulating Other) for the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

Once the child's affectionally bonded relationship with you is disrupted by the distorting influence of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, the loss of an affectionally bonded relationship with you makes the child extremely sad.

How can we possibly ask the child to expose his or her authenticity if we can not first protect the child from the certain retaliation that will be inflicted on the child by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent?

The child has been held as a psychological hostage by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (see «The Hostage Metaphor» article on my website; http://www.cachildress.org), and in that context the child has had to completely surrender psychologically to the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in order to survive.

There is too great a risk that the Gardnerian criteria will be used by narcissistic targeted parents to evade our child protection efforts.

The cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent can be reliably recognized by a definitive set of diagnostic indicators and an associated set of predicted clinical signs (see Diagnostic Indicators and Associated Clinical Signs post).

In my view, my only option since I can not offer recommendations for child custody considerations is for me to decline therapy until such time as the child's protection during the active phase of treatment can be guaranteed by a protective separation of the child from the pathogenic influence of the narcissistic / borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices are inducing the child's symptomatic state.

Placing the child into the leadership position in expressing the pathology directs the focus of mental health professionals and the legal system onto scrutinizing the parenting of the supposedly «abusive» targeted parent who is accused by the child's adopted and presented role as a «victim,» an induced role that is then actively supported by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent,

In the childhood trauma of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, the narcissistic / (borderline) parent as a child was being psychologically abused by his or her own parent, and there was nothing the narcissistic / (borderline) parent - as - a-child could do back then to escape the abuse.

The child is like a ventriloquist's puppet, mouthing the words placed there by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

It is the beginning formation of narcissistic entitlement and borderline emotional dysregulation in the child as a product of distorted parenting practices by a narcissistic / (borderline) personality, who holds the distorted beliefs that the child is acquiring.

In attachment - based «parental alienation,» the child is being used by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to regulate the emotional and psychological state of the parent.

It helped highlight the existence of «parental alienation» in the public and professional consciousness, and by giving the psychopathology a name the construct of PAS gave some degree of comfort to the many targeted - rejected parents who suffered the tragic loss of their children as a consequence of the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent that so severely distorted the development of the children.

They are deeply and rightly concerned that the construct of «parental alienation» defined by Gardner is so poorly formed that it will allow narcissistic predatory parents to continue their abuse, including the incestuous sexual abuse of the child and the psychological domination of the child (and spouse) through threats of violence directed toward the child and spouse.

B) As a result of semi-psychotic decompensation of the narcissistic / borderline parent into a delusional belief in the (false) threat represented by the other parent, with the parental delusional belief then being transferred to the child through severely distorted parenting practices of the narcissistic / borderline parent.

When you were married to the other parent at least the child had you available to provide some protection for the child when the other parent's pathology was triggered, and during the marriage most of the other parent's pathology was directed at you so that the child was spared the intensity of a direct assault by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's pathology.